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Morning Docket: 10.17.22

Above The Law

. * Fewer folks are applying to be law students in 2023. Live in Nebraska and want to go to law school in order to help people? Also — consider leaving Nebraska. Harvard Law's student body is also getting involved in political activism. This is not entirely bad. We do need more welders. News.UNL.edu ].

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Lack of Rural Lawyers Leaves Much of America Without Support

The Crime Report

“That’s an access problem when you are asking someone to drive 100 miles or more to do a simple will or a simple divorce,” said Sam Clinch, associate executive director of the Nebraska State Bar Association, a state with few lawyers outside its largest cities, Lincoln and Omaha.

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As Life Without Parole Cases Rise, Finding Public Defenders Grows Harder  

The Crime Report

Most states have no rules, and someone just out of law school could handle a life-without-parole case in Illinois or Nebraska. In Texas, there’s a continuing dispute over whether the standards for death penalty defense apply if prosecutors seek life without parole instead.

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Why the Supreme Court—and the Justice System—Need Ketanji Brown Jackson

The Crime Report

Law schools are expensive, and public defenders are paid so little. Logue is a Nebraska registrant and activist for the rights of returning citizens, and founder of the sex offense education and reform website OnceFallen.com. Clients mock public defenders as public “pretenders.”

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Why Writing Skills are Necessary for Paralegals

Paralegal Mentor

graduated from the Creighton University School of Law and practiced for many years in banking and commercial litigation in Omaha, Nebraska before she “attempted” to retire in South Carolina. Before Law School, she worked as a paralegal for a number of years and was the first CLA in the state of Nebraska.

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Zero Tolerance: Survey Finds 33 of 65 Academic Departments Lack a Single Republican Professor

JonathanTurley

The survey covered The Ohio State University, University of Nebraska-Omaha, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Georgia, Cornell University, University of Oklahoma and the University of Alaska-Anchorage.

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ALPS In Brief – Episode 64: Project Destination

ALPS

So I am a recent transfer to the law school, but I would say probably, more importantly, I’m a proud aunt, first-generation law student, and first-generation college student. Talk about law school, talk about the bar, and just let students know that this is an attainable goal. Introduce yourself.

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